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Definition of interrogate in US English:

interrogate

verb

1Ask questions of (someone, especially a suspect or a prisoner) closely, aggressively, or formally.

‘People are talking about the difficulty of interrogating him, given how high-profile he is.’

‘They both interrogated me with repetitive questions about my life away from them in California.’

‘No, I told you, do not ask me questions; you cannot interrogate me.’

‘She liked the fact that her brother was respecting her privacy for once in his life, and didn't interrogate her with endless questions.’

‘Five days later he was handed over to the US military and transferred to a US navy ship where American military and later Australian intelligence officers interrogated him.’

‘If you are interrogating someone, perhaps they will clam up about some interesting questions, but at least you can be precise about what you are asking.’

‘The manner in which he asked the question made it seem like he was interrogating us.’

‘As our circulation got going again, the pain became excruciating - and it was then, when we were doubled up in agony on the floor, that they started interrogating us about who we were and what we had been doing.’

‘For another half hour or so he was again interrogated - being asked questions he had already answered the night before.’

‘He was interrogated by the Home Office but we still don't know why it happened.’

‘He struggled against the tight ropes keeping him bound to a chair as a medium sized French officer interrogated him.’

‘That designation means that United States authorities can interrogate him more aggressively, less encumbered by the legal protections an ordinary citizen would enjoy in a criminal case.’

‘There, a man interrogated her with questions like, ‘What time was it?’’

‘I haven't personally interrogated anyone, but I know of an interrogation that took place in the field of battle or operations that I was a part of.’

‘The Bill increases the length of time that police officers can interrogate someone arrested for a federal ‘terrorist offence’ from 4 hours to 24 hours.’

‘One woman told reporters that officers had held her face down at gunpoint, interrogated her in front of her two young children and turned the residence ‘upside down’.’

‘Various men would approach Julius and I, usually interrogating us with questions of our commitment and how agreeable Julius truly was.’

‘I was really confused, but decided not to question or interrogate her - yet.’

‘These currents make it more difficult to use an electrostatic field to interrogate the system.’

‘On the other hand, my cannula was well positioned and my antibiotics were given intravenously with great regularity, and my cardiac monitor was interrogated and monitored regularly.’

‘Each well is thus optically wired such that it can be individually interrogated.’

‘When patients with ICDs expire, it is appropriate to interrogate the device to determine whether device malfunction contributed to death.’

‘Radar is the vital part of the IFF system, interrogating unit-based transponders and reading responses.’

‘As with autos, a technician will diagnose problems by plugging in a handheld computer that interrogates the engine and all other boat systems, revealing the cause of the problem and in many cases, recommending the fix.’

‘When the device was interrogated, no evidence was found that a shock had been delivered.’

‘For a complete answer we're afraid you'll need to go to a BMW dealer who will have the electronic gear to interrogate the system.’

‘I'm talking about things like being able to interrogate the network remotely from the NOC to understand where the circuit cards are, down to the inventory level.’

‘After the procedure, the PPM/ICD should always be interrogated to ensure that device function and/or programming have not been altered.’

‘In such electrically passive topologies, the lasers and receivers are located remotely from the sensor arrays and interrogate the sensors via fiber-optic links.’

‘Not to dwell on the food-shopping angle, but imagine the convenience of bagging your groceries as you go up and down the aisles, then having the checkout device interrogate your entire shopping cart.’

‘In server mode, the nodes continuously interrogate the tracking systems or other parent server nodes for position information and make the information available for the clients.’

‘Every child could have embedded location detectors and many houses could have electronics for interrogating such detectors.’